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> AN APPRAISAL OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF POLITICAL CONTROL
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> ABSTRACT
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> The objectives of this report are fourfold: (i) to provide Members of
> the European Parliament with a guide to recent advances in the
> technology of political control; (ii) to identify, analyse and
> describe the current state of the art of the most salient
> developments; (iii) to present members with an account of current
> trends, both in Europe and Worldwide; and (iv) to develop policy
> recommendations covering regulatory strategies for their management
> and future control.
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> The report contains seven substantive sections which cover
> respectively:
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> (i) The role and function of the technology of political control;
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> (ii) Recent trends and innovations (including the implications of
> globalisation, militarisation of police equipment, convergence of
> control systems deployed worldwide and the implications of increasing
> technology and decision drift);
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> (iii) Developments in surveillance technology (including the emergence
> of new forms of local, national and international communications
> interceptions networks and the creation of human recognition and
> tracking devices);
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> (iv) Innovations in crowd control weapons (including the evolution of
> a 2nd. generation of so called 'less-lethal weapons' from nuclear labs
> in the USA).
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> (v) The emergence of prisoner control as a privatised industry, whilst
> state prisons face increasing pressure to substitute technology for
> staff in cost cutting exercises and the social and political
> implications of replacing policies of rehabilitation with strategies
> of human warehousing.
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> (v) The use of science and technology to devise new efficient
> mark-free interrogation and torture technologies and their
> proliferation from the US & Europe.
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> (vi) The implications of vertical and horizontal proliferation of this
> technology and the need for an adequate political response by the EU,
> to ensure it neither threatens civil liberties in Europe, nor reaches
> the hands of tyrants.
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> The report makes a series of policy recommendations including the need
> for appropriate codes of practice. It ends by proposing specific areas
> where further research is needed to make such regulatory controls
> effective. The report includes a comprehensive bibliographical survey
> of some of the most relevant literature.
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